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| In Bluff harbour, all was foggy. |
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| Approaching Rakiura, foggy. |
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| As we threw out our first lines, the fog departed and the mollyhawks began to gather. |
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| We set out a cod pot and caught this snakey brittle star. |
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| The day turned bluer than blue and stayed that way. |
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| We caught a lot of fish: gurnard, terakihi and cod. This was the largest. |
5 comments:
Ooooo! So jealous!!
So you now have a freezer full of fish?
How are the fish stocks down your way Robert? The Marlborough Sounds seem to have been hammered as far as blue cod goes.
Weird that that brittle star had slightly malformed feeler
We talked about the Marlborough Sounds and its dearth of cod while we were out on the water Shunda. I used to live on D'Urville Island and they were stll plentiful and big, but they've been fished to rarity now.
Presently, there are good stocks around Stewart Island (and they taste better than any other blue cod in the country) but of course, under threat and pressure as are all fisheries.
*Disclaimer - ordinarily, I don't fish.
Bio - the 'star' was very weird indeed, especially in the way it moved - creepy literally. He must have been injured at some stage. We saw a seal leaping through the waves the way a bar of wet soap erupts from your hand, a zillion tiny jellyfish the size of one cent pieces, lots of fogginess and other boats carefully leaving Bluff as the ferry approached unseen from the island,too much gore and I pulled a hook from the finger of our crewman Stephen-the-Hungarian. You should have been there.
Next time!
Great day to be out on the water. Lucky you. We got some paua at Bluff.
Juliet
Ps Congrats. Hope first meeting went well.
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